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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Nice try
	Date:	8/25/2009 11:38:05 AM

Its not statistics when you say of the 1,500 people surveyed, 40% said they strongly disapprove of the President's performance and 28% said they strongly approve of the President's performance. That is simple presentation of the data. Now if they performed some analysis on the data, for example a calculation of the arithmetic or logarithmic mean, the standard deviation or the normality of the data set or used common methods like extrapolation, determined correlation coefficients, conducted a student's t-test, ANOVA, etc. or used other more sophisticated methods like Monte Carlo analysis I would agree.

We use statistical analyses in the environmental industry all the time and I know the difference between simple data presentation and data manipulation. This is a case of the former and not the latter....nice try though....